There are many good reasons why organizations should perform software architecture reconstructions. However, few organizations are willing to pay for the effort. Software architec...
—As multicore and heterogeneous multiprocessor platforms replace uniprocessor systems, software programs must be designed with a greater emphasis on concurrency. Threading has be...
Building reverse engineering or reengineering tools often requires parsers for many different programming languages. The diffusion of dialects and variants makes many available pa...
Component recovery supports program understanding, architecture recovery, and re-use. Among the best known techniques for detection of re-usable objects (related global variables ...
In the last decade, a great many code clone detection tools have been proposed. Such a large number of tools calls for a quantitative comparison, and there have been several attem...